Recently the White House blog posted a request that you send them a message “if you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy.” In an attempt to keep track of the “disinformation about health insurance reform” the White House is asking all of us, United States citizens, to snitch on each other. Apparently it’s not acceptable to disagree with what our lofty, beneficent politicians are wanting to do to (oops, do for) us.
As usual, they are smearing the people that have honest disagreements and want answers from their representatives. So it must be stopped. We are now angry mobs and just pawns of the evil insurance companies. (The insurance companies are the latest boogie man they are demonizing.)
Being the patriotic and dutiful citizen that I am and not wanting to wait for someone else to find my fishy rumors and disinformation – I turned myself in! I sent this message to flag@whitehouse.gov:
“I would like to report myself for disseminating what you refer to as fishy disinformation concerning health insurance reform. Or any other name you use to refer to health care legislation.
As an American citizen I will lawfully oppose and speak out against any government action or legislation that I disagree with. I think it is despicable, brazen and dangerous for any government administration to ask for citizens to “snitch” on each other and to brand disagreement as disinformation.
You now have my email, IP address and can obtain other personal information to find me if you need to. If voicing my opinion has become a crime without my knowledge I will gladly be here when they come for me.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.”
I can’t remember being this mad at my government before. I knew I wouldn’t be the only one thinking of doing this and there seems to be a growing movement of self-reporting. Michelle Malkin has a post as does Brutally Honest.
But my favorite is a new site by my tagfoot friend: ImFishy.com. We’re having quite an interesting discussion on this topic over at tagfoot too.